Friedrich Gunkel

Friedrich Gunkel (born August 17, 1819 in Kassel , † February 27, 1876 in Rome due to suicide ) was a German painter.

Life

Gunkel studied together with Ludwig Des Coudres , Gustav Kaupert and his brother Julius and Louis Katzenstein at the Academy in Kassel . Here he was a student of Ludwig Emil Grimm and Friedrich Wilhelm Müller and was soon considered the best student in the drawing class. He went to Berlin and worked in the studio of Peter von Cornelius as his assistant.

From May 9, 1847, he lived in Rome as a German- Roman and became a member of the German Artists' Association . In 1856 he formed a shared apartment with the sculptors Gustav Kaupert and Heinrich Gerhardt and the painter Heinrich Dreber . In 1867 he traveled to Florence . Because of impending blindness, he committed suicide in 1876 in the park of Villa Giulia in Rome.

Works

Hermannsschlacht (post-colored illustration)

Gunkel's best-known work was the Hermannsschlacht , a monumental historical painting that the Bavarian King Maximilian II ordered for the Maximilianeum in 1857 and which Gunkel completed in Munich from 1862 to 1864. It was destroyed in World War II and is only preserved in photographs and reproductions.

The museum landscape of Hessen Kassel includes the portrait of Gustav Kaupert , created in Rome in 1849, the study head of the master carpenter George Hoffmann and the history painting Drusus and the Germanin commissioned by the Kassel Art Association in 1865 .

literature

• Philipp Losch: Friedrich Gunkel. In memory of a forgotten Kassel painter. In: Hessenland. 17, 1903, pp. 196-198.
• Friedrich Noack : Gunkel, Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 344 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Gunkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 225 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
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